This essay studies the role of literary topoi or commonplaces in medieval sermon literature by us... more This essay studies the role of literary topoi or commonplaces in medieval sermon literature by using the lachrimae Christi topos as a case study. It is a commonplace that can be found in nearly all the thirteenth and early fourteenth century sermon collections from the tenth Sunday after the Holy Trinity. On that Sunday the Gospel reading was taken from Luke 19:41-48. The most common thema on that Sunday was Videns civitatem Jhesus flevit super illam. This passage tells how Jesus entered the city of Jerusalem, and seeing the city from surrounding hills he wept over it and prophesied that it will be destroyed in such a manner that there will not be a stone upon a stone left. The writers of the thirteenth century bible commentaries and sermon collections started to wonder how many times Jesus actually wept whilst in this world. They found three cases in the New Testament, and around the middle of the century a fourth one was added to what by then had become a topos that is in this ess...
It is an unusual book in many respects. It is a specific study based on original and in most case... more It is an unusual book in many respects. It is a specific study based on original and in most cases unedited sources, but it can also be read as a general introduction. It crosses boundaries between different fields of learning and traditionally accepted time periods of history. Even if it is essentially a book on medieval man, it stretches far beyond the middle ages as conventionally understood. The final chapter traces the slow disappearance of the medieval mentality until the early nineteenth century.
Lived Religion and the Long Reformation in Northern Europe c. 1300–1700, 2017
Using "lived religion" as its conceptual tool, this book explores how the Reformation s... more Using "lived religion" as its conceptual tool, this book explores how the Reformation showed itself in and was influenced by lay people's everyday lives. It reinvestigates the character of the Reformation in what later became the heartlands of Lutheranism.
This essay studies the role of literary topoi or commonplaces in medieval sermon literature by us... more This essay studies the role of literary topoi or commonplaces in medieval sermon literature by using the lachrimae Christi topos as a case study. It is a commonplace that can be found in nearly all the thirteenth and early fourteenth century sermon collections from the tenth Sunday after the Holy Trinity. On that Sunday the Gospel reading was taken from Luke 19:41-48. The most common thema on that Sunday was Videns civitatem Jhesus flevit super illam. This passage tells how Jesus entered the city of Jerusalem, and seeing the city from surrounding hills he wept over it and prophesied that it will be destroyed in such a manner that there will not be a stone upon a stone left. The writers of the thirteenth century bible commentaries and sermon collections started to wonder how many times Jesus actually wept whilst in this world. They found three cases in the New Testament, and around the middle of the century a fourth one was added to what by then had become a topos that is in this ess...
It is an unusual book in many respects. It is a specific study based on original and in most case... more It is an unusual book in many respects. It is a specific study based on original and in most cases unedited sources, but it can also be read as a general introduction. It crosses boundaries between different fields of learning and traditionally accepted time periods of history. Even if it is essentially a book on medieval man, it stretches far beyond the middle ages as conventionally understood. The final chapter traces the slow disappearance of the medieval mentality until the early nineteenth century.
Lived Religion and the Long Reformation in Northern Europe c. 1300–1700, 2017
Using "lived religion" as its conceptual tool, this book explores how the Reformation s... more Using "lived religion" as its conceptual tool, this book explores how the Reformation showed itself in and was influenced by lay people's everyday lives. It reinvestigates the character of the Reformation in what later became the heartlands of Lutheranism.
Retrospectively, I could have written a much better book on the subject, but at that time I still... more Retrospectively, I could have written a much better book on the subject, but at that time I still had academic ambitions and hopes for a career and that meant that I had to publish in hurry even if the quality suffered. Anyway, here it is, there are after all some passages that might be of interest for some collegues....
This book explores the complexity of preaching as a phenomenon in the medieval Jewish-Christian e... more This book explores the complexity of preaching as a phenomenon in the medieval Jewish-Christian encounter. This was not only an "encounter" as physical meeting or confrontation (such as the forced attendance of Jews at Christian sermons that took place across Europe), but also an "imaginary" or theological encounter in which Jews remained a figure from a distant constructed time and place who served only to underline and verify Christian teachings. Contributors also explore the Jewish response to Christian anti-Jewish preaching in their own preaching and religious instruction.
Contents:
1. Jonathan Adams and Jussi Hanska, Introduction: The Jewish-Christian Encounter in Medieval Preaching
Part I: Regional Studies
2. Raúl González Salinero, Preaching and Jews in Late Antique and Visigothic Iberia
3. Regina D. Schiewer, Sub Iudaica Infirmitate — "Under the Jewish Weakness": Jews in Medieval German Sermons
4. Jonathan Adams, Preaching about an Absent Minority: Medieval Danish Sermons and Jews
Part II: Preachers and Occasions
5. Kati Ihnat, "Our Sister Is Little and Has No Breasts": Mary and the Jews in the Sermons of Honorius Augustodunensis
6. Filippo Sedda, The Anti-Jewish Sermons of John of Capistrano: Matters and Context
7. Maria Giuseppina Muzzarelli, The Effects of Bernardino da Feltre’s Preaching on the Jews
8. Jussi Hanska, Sermons on the Tenth Sunday After Holy Trinity: Another Occasion for Anti-Jewish Preaching
Part III: Symbols and Images
9. David I. Shyovitz, Beauty and the Bestiary: Animals, Wonder, and Polemic in Medieval Ashkenaz
10. Giacomo Todeschini, The Origin of a Medieval Anti-Jewish Stereotype: The Jews as Receivers of Stolen Goods (Twelfth to Thirteenth Centuries)
11. Pietro Delcorno, The Roles of Jews in the Florentine Sacre Rappresentazioni: Loyal Citizens, People to be Converted, Enemies of the Faith
12. Nirit Ben-Aryeh Debby, Mendicants and Jews in Florence
13. Martine Boiteux, Preaching to the Jews in Early Modern Rome: Words and Images
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Contents:
1. Jonathan Adams and Jussi Hanska, Introduction: The Jewish-Christian Encounter in Medieval Preaching
Part I: Regional Studies
2. Raúl González Salinero, Preaching and Jews in Late Antique and Visigothic Iberia
3. Regina D. Schiewer, Sub Iudaica Infirmitate — "Under the Jewish Weakness": Jews in Medieval German Sermons
4. Jonathan Adams, Preaching about an Absent Minority: Medieval Danish Sermons and Jews
Part II: Preachers and Occasions
5. Kati Ihnat, "Our Sister Is Little and Has No Breasts": Mary and the Jews in the Sermons of Honorius Augustodunensis
6. Filippo Sedda, The Anti-Jewish Sermons of John of Capistrano: Matters and Context
7. Maria Giuseppina Muzzarelli, The Effects of Bernardino da Feltre’s Preaching on the Jews
8. Jussi Hanska, Sermons on the Tenth Sunday After Holy Trinity: Another Occasion for Anti-Jewish Preaching
Part III: Symbols and Images
9. David I. Shyovitz, Beauty and the Bestiary: Animals, Wonder, and Polemic in Medieval Ashkenaz
10. Giacomo Todeschini, The Origin of a Medieval Anti-Jewish Stereotype: The Jews as Receivers of Stolen Goods (Twelfth to Thirteenth Centuries)
11. Pietro Delcorno, The Roles of Jews in the Florentine Sacre Rappresentazioni: Loyal Citizens, People to be Converted, Enemies of the Faith
12. Nirit Ben-Aryeh Debby, Mendicants and Jews in Florence
13. Martine Boiteux, Preaching to the Jews in Early Modern Rome: Words and Images